72 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
flowering plants, orchids, ferns and fungi; and on all these sub- 
jects the author has much information to impart. The district 
“is particularly rich in orchids, no less than fifteen species having 
been collected and identified. The sandy lanes of Sussex are well 
known for the profusion of ferns, with which, in many places, their 
high banks are clothed; but we were scarcely prepared to learn 
that in this “ corner parish of West Sussex” no less than seventeen 
species may be found. Under the head of Fungi, the author 
notices a specimen of the Giant Puff-ball (Lycoperdon giganteum), 
obtained in the autumn of 1873, which measured thirty-eight inches 
and a half in horizontal circumference by thirty-one inches in 
vertical circumference, and weighed six pounds! 
It is unfortunate for the reader that there is no index to this 
book; for a good index would have added considerably to its 
utility. We presume by some oversight it was forgotten ! 
We should have liked to learn something about the herd of 
Red Deer which once roamed in Lady Holt Park, and since 
Mr. Gordon has referred (p. 131) to an entry in the Caryll Account- 
book for Lady Holt, “ Ap. 22,1700. Paid Jones ye faulconer a 
year’s wages, ending Lady Day last, £8,” it would have been 
interesting to know something about hawking on the South Downs 
in the days of Queen Anne. We can add a new quadruped to the 
fauna of Harting, in the shape of the Bank Vole (Arvicola riparia), 
which Mr. Weaver thinks he has not identified with certainty, but 
a specimen of which we picked up dead one day in autumn, on the 
hill outside the park gates. As the Pipistrelle is not included 
amongst the Bats (p. 233), and we have often seen it on the wiug 
about the lanes of Harting, we presume that, by a dapsus calami, 
the rarer Barbastelle has been inadvertently allowed to take its 
place. We will not refer to the typographical errors further than 
to say that, considering the number of scientific names which of 
necessity appear in a book of this kind, the printers may be con- 
gratulated upon the existence of fewer misprints than might have 
been expected. 
Apart from its value as a contribution to county history, the 
book, on the whole, furnishes one of the best accounts of a local 
fauna and flora which we have met with for some time, and we 
commend it to the notice of every zoologist and botanist. 
